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by gspr 395 days ago
> Do distro maintainers share patches, man pages, call home metrics and other data with other distros’ maintainers (and them back)?

Yes, at a minimum the patches are in the Debian source packages. Moreover, maintainers are highly encouraged to send patches upstream, both for the social good and to ease the distribution's maintenance burden. An automated tool to look for such patches is the "patches not yet forwarded upstream" field on https://udd.debian.org/patches.cgi